Recent Episodes
Feb. 9, 2026
Beethoven's 9th Symphony
It’s Classical For Everyone’s 1 st Birthday, so here’s a personal favourite. This was the first time a choir and soloists had been added to a ‘symphony’. Choral and orchestral music had been combined before but at the time th...
Feb. 5, 2026
Very Old (Incredible) Music
If from time to time you happen to listen to a podcast with the subtitle ‘Five Hundred Years Of incredible Music’ then it would be a reasonable expectation to hear some five hundred year old music. I’ve played a few pieces fr...
Jan. 31, 2026
The Music of Philip Glass
On the day this episode is released, the American composer Philip Glass celebrates his 89 th birthday. In a career now lasting well over five decades he has somehow achieved two extraordinarily rare things for a contemporary ...
Jan. 25, 2026
Recent Discoveries
Only be taken in the very personal sense of… recent discoveries by me. Not that I actually discovered anything. In my ongoing mission to keep the production of CDs alive, I came across music I didn’t know and thought that you...